Microsoft AI Is Alleged to Have Generated Violent Imagery of Minorities and Public Figures

November 10, 2023

Microsoft's AI Image Creator, integrated within Bing and Windows Paint, reportedly generated disturbing, violent, and graphic images involving minority groups and public figures such as Joe Biden and Pope Francis. This incident underscores the importance of safe and secure AI practices.

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Alleged deployer: windows-paint, microsoft, bing-users, bing, ai-image-creator
Alleged developer: microsoft
Alleged harmed parties: sikh-people, president-joe-biden, pope-francis, navajo-people, minorities, hillary-clinton, general-public, donald-trump

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Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/621

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McGregor, S. (2021) Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents: The AI Incident Database. In Proceedings of the Thirty-Third Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-21). Virtual Conference.

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